DevPSU, a student-run program created by the Penn State student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, will host the first DevPSU Summit from 7-9 p.m. April 2 in the Business Building Atrium at University Park to showcase the work of students from the DevPSU Startup Program.
Building on last year’s success, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will host two weeklong summer camps designed to introduce girls to engineering.
The College of Engineering partnered with The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security to host a three-day workshop, a joint initiative to understand the evolving interactions between technology and our economic, political and social institutions, in Washington, D.C. A goal for participants was to learn how leaders use strategic foresight to better understand and anticipate changes that human-technology systems create and how to design strategies and develop options to better navigate those changes.
The Naval Center for Space Technology at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., recently visited Penn State’s College of Engineering to kick-off a long-term plan for talent development between engineering students and Navy researchers.
Aasheesh Kolli, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, recently received the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation at the University of Michigan, titled “Architecting Persistent Memory Systems.”
Penn State’s data sciences program was established to position graduates to address some of the world’s most challenging problems. As an increasing number of companies begin to produce larger data sets, there is a growing demand for skilled data scientists to analyze the information and present solutions.
Vijay Narayanan, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, has been appointed to the A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering by the Penn State College of Engineering.
Doug Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, recently received an Outstanding Technical Achievement award from the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) for his project titled, “Metamaterial-Enabled Small Form-Factor Antennas for High-Power Microwave (HPM) Applications.”
Vijay Narayanan and Anand Sivasubramaniam, distinguished professors of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, are part of the Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP), one of six centers chosen across the nation by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program to undertake high-risk, high-payoff research that addresses existing and emerging challenges in microelectronic technologies.
A paper authored by Guohong Cao, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, and his former graduate student Jing Zhao, was recently selected as the winner of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Test of Time Paper Award.
Students in the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs’ Engineering Leadership Development program work to develop their engineering skills and interpersonal skills through classes that focus on interaction with other cultures.
Guohong Cao, professor of computer science and engineering, has been conferred the status of distinguished professor in Penn State’s College of Engineering, the highest professorial distinction in the University.
Aylin Yener, professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn Sate, appears in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researchers list for 2017.
A group of students in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science won second place for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Science (IEEE CS) Global Student Challenge for High-Impact Technology Solutions. They were awarded this honor for their work on the National Science Foundation Expeditions-in-Computing Project “Visual Cortex on Silicon.”
Kaisheng Ma, a doctoral candidate in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, won third prize in the China Overseas Talent and Innovation Entrepreneur competition.
